Lawless (2012)

Lawless Synopsis

Lawless is the true story of the infamous Bondurant Brothers: bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia. In this epic gangster tale, inspired by true-life tales of author Matt Bondurant’s family in his novel “The Wettest County In The World”, the loyalty of three brothers is put to the test against the backdrop of the nation’s most notorious crime wave.

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In an early announcement from Anchor Bay Entertainment and the Weinstein Company , Lawless has been announced for its upcoming Blu-ray release. The news has actually come pretty early; the flick has been winding down its theatrical release over the last several weeks, but can currently still be seen in some theaters. If you haven’t caught the film yet, this is your official warning that it will be out of theaters soon. After that, you’ll have to wait until November 27 to nab a copy.

The Labor Day Holiday weekend is traditionally one of the quieter ones, marking the start of the sleepy weeks of September and October, and this year was no excpetion. The top ten banked around $100 million over the four day weekend, just nudging over the $99 million from 2011's holiday.

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Over the normal three-day weekend newcomer The Possession took top billing with a modest $17 million debut. It stayed well ahead of the much marketed and highly anticipated Lawless which broke in at number two to the tune of $9 million after making just over $2 million on Wednesday and Thursday following an early week debut.

The American gangster movie is an institution that makes heroes from outlaws and let's us all experience the thrills of crime vicariously through some bad men with big guns. But set in deep in Franklin County, Virginia, John Hillcoat's gangster drama Lawless offers a little western flavor.

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The summer is winding down toward a total stop, what with Labor Day right around the corner and Corona production about to be discontinued until Memorial Day. The summer movie season is also nearing a close, but not before one more cool flick and another horror retread hit the theaters. This week we’ve got Prohibition and Possession

Do not be alarmed if you see someone on the subway in the coming weeks with bullets sticking out of their ears. They haven't been involved in some random shooting accident; they're just being lawless. Alright, fine, they're actually winners of this Lawless contest we're about to offer to you

Based on the Matt Bondurant's novel The Wettest County in the World, Lawless tells the remarkable and true story of his grandfather and two granduncles who lived far from the sparkling metropolises most often associated with gangsters, instead residing deep in Franklin County, Virginia. Here Forrest, Jack and Howard Bondurant made the best out of the Prohibition Era by getting rich making moonshine and dodging the law who wants in on their profits.

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A couple weeks ago, The Weinstein Company decided to do something interesting with their marketing campaign for the upcoming period thriller Lawless. Rather than release the standard poster or still, they instead drew up an infographic that detailed the guns carried by three characters in the movie, from the make to the muzzle velocity.

Although there wasn’t an official The Dark Knight Rises presence at Comic Con, the special screening of John Hillcoat's Lawless was the best possible lead in for Christopher Nolan’s final comic book movie thanks to Tom Hardy’s fierce performance

A cool infographic was released yesterday morning that went into detail about the weaponry held by Forrest Bondurant (Tom Hardy), Special Agent Charlie Rakes (Guy Pearce) and Howard Bondurant (Jason Clarke), providing audiences with date of manufacture, weight, and muzzle velocity, but they made one big mistake: they brought a gun on stage and failed to fire it. So now they've made up for the error by releasing a brand new trailer

The inside graphic breaks down the weapons of choice for key characters, from Hardy’s Colt Detective .38 Special (595 grams, with a muzzle velocity of 725 feet per second) to Pearce’s Smith & Wesson .38 Special. When a film pays this amount of attention to the firepower blasting across the screen, you know we’re in for something violently original.

Lawless is the new film from Australian director John Hillcoat and the last time that he and singer-songwriter-screenwriter Nick Cave collaborated, we got The Proposition one of the best westerns since Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven. Back together and brining their new film to France, The Weinstein Company just delivered the first trailer for Hillcoat and Cave's Lawless, formerly called Wettest County Take a look.

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